Refrigerator.



Patented Aug. 6, |901.4 `J. B. SIMMS. 'REFRIGERA'TOR (pplication me@ Apr. 25, 1901.!

(Nol'lodsl.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN R. SIMMS, OF LINDEN, CALIFORNIA.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming* part Of Letters Patent No. 680,004, dated August 6, 1901.

Application filed April 25, 1901.

T0 @ZZ whom, t may concern.'

Be it known that I, JOHN R. SIMMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Linden, in the county of San Joaquin and State of California, have invented a new and useful `Refrigerator, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in apartments for the storage of perishable provisions during hot weather, known as refrigerators, by the use of such devices as are adapted to maintain a proper degree of low temperature without the use of ice; and my object is to furnish a food chamber or chest, in combination with certain cooling devices, which will be cheap of construction and operation. This I accomplish by the use mainly of canvas jugs or any suitable absorbent material filled or satu rated with water and placed within the food chamber or chest; and it consists in the peculiar construction, novel combination, and adaptation of parts hereinafter described,and particularly pointed out in the claims hereto annexed, reference beingl had to the accompanyin g drawings for a better comprehension thereof, in which-`- Figure 1 is a sectional View of my refrigerator-chest, disclosing the interior and its contents. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of one of the cooling devices.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views of the drawings, referring to which;-

A represents the top'of the chest, having at its centera ventilator-chimney or air-outlet B. C indicates the -doors of the chest, which may be hinged in the usual way. D is the bottom of the chest, provided with numerous perforations or air inlets. i Shelves d are placed in suitable positions lWithin the chest and are slotted. Canvas jugs E are located at the centers of the shelves d, such jugs E being previously filled with cold Water, or, if preferred, the top jug may be filled through a pipe b, supplying water from the top A of the chest, such pipe b being connected there'- with at a point containing an orifice or waterbowl a, the water iiowing through from top jug down through a connecting-pipe g into Serial No. 57,415. (No model.)

'the series of jugs beneath and from the bottom one of such series into a discharge-pipe j, having a faucet G at. its outer end outside the chest by means of which the water may be drawn off from the jugs and connectingpipes when it is desired to iiush or cleanse them.

If preferred, for cheapness and simplicity the pipes b, g, and] may be dispensed with and the jugsE used without them, in which event such jugs E will be supplied `with loop-handles f, by which they are suspended from hooks e, attached beneath the shelves d. lhe ends of the pipes b and g which enter the jugs are of sufficient density to permit of them being tightly inserted in the outlets and inlets, respectively, of the jugs E, so as to prevent any outow of Water, and the sections g are provided with couplings h, so that they may be easily connected and disconnected when it is desired to remove the jugs. The air is admitted, as heretofore shown, through the perforated bottom D, and passing upward encounters the moist surfaces of the j ugs E, causing evaporation, and thus reducing the temperature, and then escapes through the ventilator-chimney B.

Water may be cooled for drinking purposes by placing a filled earthen jug within the chest and suspending it by the loops f from the hools e beneath the shelves d.

I have chosen canvas j ugs filled with water as best illustrating my direct means of cooling the air; but any other absorbent material of the same nature, it is apparent, may be utilized-Lto Wit, saturated With water and suspended within the chest.

VMy invention in remote districts, where artificial refrigeration by means of ice is im practicable, will be found of very great advantage by reason ofits simplicity and cheapness.

If it is desired to use my invention ou a large scalefor instance, for refrgerating a constructed in which the air is cooled by the evaporation of Water held in porousmaterial, and this-ifeature I do not clam,`oroadly; .but What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a refrigerator the combination substantially as described and shown of the chest, t

ventilator-chimney B at the top A, the bottom D provided with air-inlets, the slotted shelves d, and canvas Water-jugs E suspended beneath the shelves d.

2. In a refrigerator the combination with a suitable chest provided with a doorC, andi` shelves d, provided withslots, of the ventilator-chimney B on the top A, provided with water-inlet a, air-inlets at the bottoms or sides of the base, the jugs E, and means for iilling the jugs vE lwith water consisting of the pipe `bsecured to the top A at the inlet a,

and the connecting-pipes g, all constructed p and operating substantially as described and shown. 1 l

3. Inr a refrigerator the-combination of a chest, a ventilator-chimney at the top, a bottom lprovided with air-inlets, a series of canvas water-j ugs Vwithin the chamber and means -for supplying the jugs with Water and flushin presence of two witnesses.

JOHN R. SIMMS. Witnesses:

JOSHUA B. WEBSTER, f4: B. HODGE. 

